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If you're
Kate Middleton,
the answer is 'your own blouse'. By that I mean one you already own.

Confused? Well, in case you've not looked at a newspaper, television or website for the past couple of days, you would have missed the fact that Kate Middleton has been embarking on a final fling with the high street before her big day.

Once one's a bona fide Royal, one won't be shopping in
Warehouse
or
Banana Republic
or (cover your ears Ma'am)
Dune
, so Miss Middleton has been flexing her plastic on London's King's Road, like any normal 29 year-old without a care in the world.

But this afternoon, her shopping trip took a rather bizarre turn when Middleton popped into fashionista favourite, Whistles, to buy, not this season's must-have pleated midi-skirt or their hot-off-the-catwalk polka-dot wide-leg flared trousers, but the very blouse she wore in her official engagement portraits.

Middleton fans will recall that this is the blouse Kate selected from her
own
wardrobe for her big moment in front of Mario Testino's lens, prompting Whistles to swiftly resurrect the design from their archives and reissue it.

The ivory silk 'Kate' blouse with ruffle detail on the front set Middleton back £125, £30 more than the first time she bought it back in 2008, but what was her motivation for her purchase?

Perhaps she fell in love with it all over again and forgot she already owned it (I admit, I did actually do this once)? Perhaps it's for the Royal archives, or to put in a time capsule buried under the King's Road for a future generation to unearth?

Or maybe she just spilt ketchup down the front of the old one. Lest we forget, she's just like the rest of us, and even princesses have their off-days.